Architectural Capriccio: Grand Staircase Seen through an Archway

1712–93

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions: 13 11/16 x 11in. (34.8 x 27.9cm)
Collection no.: 37.165.79
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Francesco Guardi. Architectural Capriccio: Grand Staircase Seen through an Archway. Francesco Guardi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1937. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Architectural Capriccio: Grand Staircase Seen through an Archway — Francesco Guardi. 1712–93.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk. Dimensions: 13 11/16 x 11in. (34.8 x 27.9cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1937.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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